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Religious Diversity in Public Education

A Comparative European Perspective

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Safe Spaces

Part of the book series: Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching ((CIFL,volume 5))

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A wave of secularization has hit Europe since the end of the Second World War. The trend has been connected to social modernization and as such it fails to predict or simply explain the current and widely discussed religious revivalism.2 Contemporary arrangements of church-state relations are not particularly helpful in justifying the return of religion to the forefront either. Religious fundamentalism enhances the impression of re-actualization of religion, especially in legal orders that have fervently preached that religion is strictly unnecessary in a secular and neutral state.

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Topidi, K. (2012). Religious Diversity in Public Education. In: Roux, C. (eds) Safe Spaces. Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching, vol 5. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-936-7_8

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